skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be impossible in this world to expect a form of donation, but it is certainly not impossible to expect forms of investment.

One idea I had is everyone is paid a thriving wage, and in exchange, if they in the future develop their passion into something that can make a profit, they pay back 20% of their profits they make up to some capped amount.

This allows for extreme generality. It truly frees people to pursue whatever they fancy every day until they catch lightning in a bottle.

There would be 0 obligation as to what to do, and when to pay back the money. But of course would have to be only open to honest people, so that neither side is exploiting the other.

Both sides need a sense of gratitude, and wanting to give back. A philanthropic 'flair' "If it doesn't work out, it's okay", and a gratitude and wanting to give back someday on the side of the receiver, as they continue working on probably the most resilient thing they could ever work on (the safest investment), their lifelong passion.
Why shouldn’t Nintendo have an official YouTube mandated account for takedowns? Is there a legal requirement that they don’t validate the rights holder?
Hi, Viktor here!

I made this as I believe it would have made me very excited to see my drawings come alive when I was a kid.

I hope someone can get the same joy out of it as I would have at that age!
It's already impacting some of us. I hope it never appears until the human civilization undergoes a profound change. But I'm afraid many rich people want that happen.

It's the real Great Filter in the universe IMO.
When will computer hardware match the human brain? (Hans Moravec, 1997) [pdf]
Developing desire
It's not a wage issue.
if we mobilized a whole-of-society effort to build millions of rocket engines and fired them year round, it'd only take a few hundred years to get this done
I agree, moving the earth's axis with respect to the sun seems actually feasible compared to getting a standards body to agree on coordinated change.
This attempt to represent corporate greed as a “mission” is laughable. They are a for-profit company, just like a thousand others. It reminds me of Google’s “Don’t be evil” ethos.
I'm not sure if that is something we actually would want.

Lots of people certainly think they want that.
In fact I think it’d be a bit sad if it wasn’t largely written by ChatGPT.
That's a stupid analogy because you're comparing a brainprocess to a full animal.

Only a small part of that 60kcal is used for learning, and for that same 60 kcal you get an actual physical being that is able to procreate, eat, do things and fend for and maintain itself.

Also you cannot compare neuron firing rates with clockspeed. Afaik each neuron in a ml-model can have code that takes several clock cycles to complete.

Also an neuron in ml is just a weighted value, a biological neuron does much more than that. For example neurons communicate using neuro transmitters as well as using voltage potentials. The actual date rate of biological neurons is therfore much higher and complex.

Basically your analogy is false because your napkin-math basically forgets that the rat is an actual biological rat and not something as neatly defined as a computer chip
Looks really out of place for me on KDE, big fat gnome title bar and buttons etc...
Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Intake and Health Status in Vegetarians
The same group of people who were confident Reddit was doomed after removing third party apps and Twitter was doomed after layoffs is now confident that Automattic is going to pay $5.6 b in Sherman Act penalties? I'm sure he's quaking in his boots.

He's a loose cannon for sure, but I'd still bet on him rather than the rabble that will explain why a Real Business would never do what he's doing and then, in their next comment, complain on /r/antiwork about why they can't find a job.
That assumes you believe his claims of disaster. We already have been through this with the printing press, telecommunications, computers and the internet. The claims of disaster are overrated.
Your problem may be with those jackasses at work.

I get very useful answers from ChatGPT several times a day. You need to verify anything important, of course. But that's also true when asking people.
The Cicero Trilogy by Robert Harris: Imperium, Titan, Dictator

Fascinating pageturner that also provide some real insight what life was like in ancient rome.
It's not 'for effect'. It's the legal description of use of a firearm by police/military.

The "drone threat" is a bunch of mass hysteria. Every photo I was shown was obviously a passenger jet liner.
I believe (most) people contribute their ambitions to nurture safe, peaceful, friend-filled communities. AGI won’t obsolete those human desires. Hopefully we weather the turbulence that comes with change and come out the other side with new tools that enable our pursuits. In the macro, that’s been the case. I am grateful to live in a time of literacy, antibiotics, sanitation, electricity… and am optimistic that if AGI emerges, it joins that list of human empowering creations.
I am curious why you think FAANG code is necessarily better than the rest of the world. There are egregious affronts everywhere.
none of that is a syntax issue, though, that's semantics
I think this kind of framing, suggesting that seeking more information is some kind of irrational-yet-understandable emotional response, is kind of disrespectful and presumptuous. The family knows more about the situation that online commenters do, and they're choosing to get more information which they can only choose to do now. Isn't that appropriate and reasonable in the context?

I've never dealt with such a situation before. But after something bad and unexpected happens, shouldn't it be considered generally a good idea to collect/record a lot of information while it's still possible? After production outages we ensure logs and records and traces are preserved. After bad car crashes you get witness statements, take photos, etc.

Further, nowhere in the article are any family members quoted saying anything conspiratorial. It's people online who are talking about assassination by BigCorp. There are other possibilities besides suicide and being murdered specifically because of the whistleblowing. I think we should take seriously the possibility that an autopsy can be an appropriate and rational choice even without any conspiracy theory being true.
"What an LLM creates is not algorithmic."

Not strictly true. There are patterns in the weights that could be steps in an algorithm.
Are those who are so depressed that they are close to suicide able to consistently put on a happy face for friends and family? I suppose they likely do perhaps? But I’d imagine the charade consumes an extremely high amount of emotional energy which might serve to heighten the depression. I feel like though that if someone were close enough that they’d have to detect some sort of inkling of a severe problem.
I refuse to believe that it’s not possible to drive the car without the app.
it’s very inspiring!

I wonder why manila envelopes. does envelope paper have properties uniquely fitted for this kind of modeling, or is it just nice color and suitable weight?
It is not "conspiracism" to assume foul play if a witness is murdered. There is a thing like witness protection programs. Are these set up by conspiracy theorists?

For the people who say he had no important information: We do not know that, perhaps he had surprise information.
His stablecoin claims failed. He lied about other firms (Chai) using his tech.

NY is hunting him for wire fraud and a few other criminal charges.
Keeping a calendar is fairly simple (requires knowing writing). Observing which day the solstice is on is also fairly simple (requires a sundial: the shortest/longest shadow at noon are the solstices. If you're in the tropics just observe when the sun passes directly overhead instead). Observing that the solstice moves by a day every 4 years isn't too hard by analyzing those observations.
My favourite was "how did I get here?". In walking life a story immediately appears, in the dream you were just kind of always there.
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Not really. Denmark does not have the resources to develop (or defend) Greenland the way the US can.

Denmark's entire annual subsidy to the Greenlandic government (which the latter very much needs to keep afloat) as of 2020 was $670 million, which is less than the annual budget of El Paso. <https://web.archive.org/web/20200708202258/https://www.thelo...> A US-owned (or US-affiliated under a compact of free association) Greenland will in a decade see more development than it has in the past century, just as the US bases that dotted the island during the Cold War were themselves more development than Denmark built in the past century.

My favorite anecdote about Greenland is that the US presence during and after WW2 brought Sears catalogs that residents used to for the first time obtain many goods. <https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-abandoned-mining-t...>
If it so bad there is actually a whistleblower then how do they pass their ISO27001 audits? Bit too friendly with TUV Nord?

https://cariad.technology/content/dam/digitalmindofmobility/...

EDIT: Just noticed this is an ISO9001 certificate. Though on their job offer site they do ask for "Foundational understanding of security related regulations and standards preferred (e.g. ISO21434, ISO27001, NIST-800)". Unclear if they are actually ISO 27001. Found the 9001 one by fluke, they don't seem to list that one on their site either.
The reason WP was so successful isn't because it's the best CMS, or even the one with the easiest API to learn for non programmers.

The reason WP was so successful is that, for a significant amount of time. it had VERY BASIC php requirements to run, but first and foremost, its API was very STABLE, allowing the creation of a gigantic plugin ecosystem that were still compatible after a decade, when JOOMLA, Drupal and co kept breaking API all the time, or decided to bump their minimum requirements way too often.

so there can't really be a wordpress killer, if you have specific need, use a more specialized CMS.

API stability is one of the most under-rated feature when it comes to open source projects.
If we’re changing unix time we should probably do something about the year 2038 problem. It’ll not be nearly as fun as new years in 2000.
Yes, Haskell's choices are often overwhelming. Think of Ruby On Rails, where the community has a well-worn playbook and everyone knows the game. Then compare Haskell, which hits designers with an overwhelming menu of choices, and the community still hasn't picked the winners.

Glancing at r/haskell, people often ask for help in choosing web frameworks, SQL libraries, effect systems and monad transformers, regex libraries, text datatypes, lens packages and so on. Simple Haskell and Boring Haskell tried eliminating those problems but the community ignored their pleas, occasionally dismissing the idea with frank negativity.

> what abandonware and a tiny community have to do with cognitive load -- I agree they're bad, I just don't see the connection to cognitive load.)

Our due diligence on 3rd party libraries investigates how active a library is, which includes github submission frequency, online discussions, blog posts, security fix responsiveness, courseware, etc. Activity runs from extremely high (like pytorch) to graveyard code written long ago by graduate students and researchers. Between those endpoints, the big middle is often murky and requires lots of contingency analysis, given that we're delivering real systems to clients and they must stay absolutely safe and happy. All that analysis is brain-deadening, non-productive cognitive load.

Obviously none of this is unique to Haskell, but it's fair to say that other platforms provide more standardized design conventions, and for my needs, a quicker path to success.
Opt in you mean, like the cookie banners?

Oh no that'll never happen because VW are a European company and the money is in fining US tech companies!
Revealing Questions
Sent me the message that Saudi Arabia remains a shithole.
Yes, DBOS has a similar philosophy. Strip away all the hard and annoying parts, let you just code. Our other philosophy is "just do it in Postgres". :)

FWIW you can't really do the same thing on Cloudflare workers -- their crons are "best effort", and you'd still need to get storage somewhere else. With DBOS the storage is built right in.
That's blowing your mind because the currently implicitly or mindlessly acknowledged understanding by the majority of people is that today is the peak of human's evolution. Majority thinks that they inherently and collectively know everything better in relation to what our ancestors knew, especially compared to those thousands of years ago. But how do you really know. Because they had no iPhones and cars? Development of technical tools, yeah there we _might_ well be on the peak, but that doesn't really cover all aspects of actually _understanding_ our earth and the universe.
> That is NOT more secure.

"More" implies a comparison to something.

Given that Grandmas+Joes were using "passw0rd!" for all their passwords, I would argue their GDoc of backup codes is considerably more secure.
That really makes no sense.. would you say someone who is disabled bellow the neck is not intellegent / has no common sense, street smaets, creativity, etc...?

Or would you say that you cannot judge the intellegence of someone by reading their books / exchanging emails with them?
With the application of sufficient force, any object can be made to fly at least once. No AI necessary.
The reason for all that telemetry is the legislation. How do you think they are going to implement the full “intelligent” speed assistant in 2027?
have you seen the lengths to which Sama goes to silence ex-employees using legal means like cancelling vested equity and super-aggressive NDAs. there have been multiple articles written on that. its not far fetched to imagine & definitely not conspiratorial if you factor in the fact that now openAI has $40B worth of saudi investments. that regime is known to some of most vicious atrocities including that reporter.

this would be sending a clear message to future whistleblowers.
Oh, I agree - Just ask Apple’s little known IT department - IS&T.

The Apple engineers even here on HN who work at Apple, and criticize the mistakes of junior devs or other senior devs, have no clue about the trash that exists in the less important parts of the organization. For many of them, just doing some research on how even Apple accepts atrocities would be quite humbling.
We do not know what secrets he had for the witness stand. It could have been internal directives like "F*** copyright" or worse.
I'll buy that. Languages evolve. For me to say the word 'degrade' is also me judging the current changes from my own point of view. Similarly to how the article is judging how past eras of language and criticizing the changes.
I don’t get this take. Is it so hard to understand that a computer operates on a giant array of bytes?

I think the hard thing to understand is that C’s pointer syntax is backwards (usage follows declaration is weird).

I also think understanding how arrays silently decay to pointers and how pointer arithmetic works in C is hard: ptr+1 is not address+1, but address+sizeof(*ptr)!

Pointers are not hard. C is just confusing, but happens to be the lingua franca for “high level” assembly.
Current AI degrades totally unlike human experts. It also, by design, must lag its data input.

Anything innovated must come from outside or have a very close permutation to be found.

Generative AI isn't scary at all now. It is merely rolling dice on a mix of other tech and rumors from the internet.

The data can be wrong or old...and people keep important secrets.
Found it pretty funny that the article claims that public transit and bicycle infrastructure are less sustainable than car infrastructure. These are not serious people.
European companies get fined the same as any other companies.
>That seems to have been the real problem

The real problem here is starting a war. In a more peaceful context, even being hundreds of miles off from your flight plan wouldn't have resulted in this plane getting shot down.

I get what you're saying, though. It sounds unlikely that shooting this plane down was done because anyone specifically wanted to shoot down this particular civilian plane.
Indeed and unfortunately. I've been reading up on "the binding problem" in AI lately and came across a paper that hinged on there being an "object representation" which would magically solve the apparent issues in symbolic AI. In the discussion some 20 pages later, the authors confessed that they, nor anybody else, could define what an object was in the first place. Sometimes the efforts seem focused on "not letting the other team win" rather than actually having something tangible to bring to the table.
That's just implementation details. You can absolutely do Result types with unwinding (and som auto inserted catches) and you can absolutely do exceptions with chained early returns.

The relevant improvement new languages (Rust, Zig, Swift?) bring over old is making it explicit at the callsite what actions throw and how they're composed
This is the "cell phones in public" stage of technology.

As with cell phones, eventually society will adapt.
It's funny you say that because whenever I see a standup special and the comedian seems to randomly be prompted by something they see in the audience/off camera that leads them down a bespoke, yet perfect response/thread I have to think they are just making the prompt up.
To be fair, that line is intentionally blurred.
I do not understand this parasite language. It is open source software.

My employer indirectly profits from me using Python resources (eg python.org and PyPI). Yet, Guido is not coming out and saying I am a parasite leeching off of the system. Pony up 8% of company revenue or else.
But I do have a choice, simply because your ego wants to believe otherwise does not make it true. I find people who do that annoying and will refuse to change course or speed unless I am feeling ornery in which I will abruptly stop or slow down "controlling" their behavior to dodge. Only I don't see it as controlling their behavior because they could just as easily choose to run into me and I have no control over which option they chose.
They claim a lot of things, but whatever air defense they have comes from Iran, and Iran, as we just saw, isn't capable of shooting down IAF F-15s flying over their own airspace. Ansar Allah did not shoot down an American F-18. I don't believe Ansar Allah has any meaningful air defense at all; it would make no strategic sense for them to invest in it, they have no hope of maintaining air superiority against any of their adversaries. Like Hezbollah, which trained them, and which also has no meaningful air defense, their strategy is to be hard to bomb effectively.
They are YouTubers not auditors, even auditors have a hard time figuring out if companies are legit or not (Wirecard). Why would a YouTuber or influencer be able to do that task as a side thing when getting advertising deals?
Google working to build web standards to let companies demand & verify state issued credentials too. This feels like such a scary scary step for the internet, letting companies demand strong verification.

Normally a huge fan of a bigger web platform, but will control, coral, and track users and that's a #rfc8890 violation of very high degree.

Digital Credentials API: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/digital-credentials-api-or...
He was just awarded a prison sentence, but it's suspended for two years on the condition that he doesn't bring any more of these cases. He's left the jurisdiction and has been hopping around extradition havens, so an arrest order would just have the effect of ending the court's ability to influence him.

He's already announced that he's going to attempt to appeal. I expect that similar to his recently rejected appeal he'll file another few thousand pages of chatgpt hallucinations in this one.
Or the company hires publicists who specialize in character assassination.

There's a NY Times story about how this sort of thing is done around celebrities. 90% of what you read, watch, or listen to involving celebrities is manufactured attention-seeking or revenge PR.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/opinion/blake-lively-just...

There seems to be a decent chance the Amber Herd hatefest on reddit and twitter was manufactured by Johnny Depp's PR team.
The model looks cleaner than the aircraft's business class IRL, if recent videos are to be believed.
"successful blockchain"

Ponzi schemes are often successful until they aren't.
Don't think the article is doing good job explaining how it is a dead end.

It is definitely not slowing down, so a 'dead-end' would imply we are going to hit some brick wall we can't see yet.
Exploring Kowloon Walled City in an Afternoon – Vlog by Suenn Ho (1991) [video]
It's not one or the other, they use both third party cloud and a lot of their own infra.
The article is speculating about the future based on current trends, so of course there is not yet a digital passport.

The current experiments seem to be fractured across governments and I would be very surprised to see a centralized system (as your response seems to imply) come into play until well after various governments introduce their own digital systems.
"I only make you struggle because I love you!"

(Mmmhmm, I'm sure the benefits received by the people on top have nothing to do with it.)
I wonder how the author would respond to your feedback:

> Reporting problems and proposed solutions should be encouraged, but there shouldn't be a blanket statement of "Don't bring a me problem unless you have a proposed solution!"

It's kind of meta because in this post itself you are employing a kind of complain-and-propose.

Anyways I think your conclusion is entirely reasonable. I don't think blanket statements are most ever the solution, and I assume the author would agree!
There was a whole rash of them a few years back. I'm not sure if any of them took off or what.

https://ghost.org/

https://strapi.io/

https://getgrav.org/

https://craftcms.com/
Finnish authorities board tanker suspected of damaging undersea cables
LLMs still completely won't admit that they're wrong, don't have enough information or that the information could have changed - Asking anything about Svelte 5 is an incredible experience currently.

At the end of the day it's a tool currently, with surface-level information it's incredibly helpful in my opinion - Getting an overview of a subject or even coding smaller functions.

What's interesting in my opinion is "agents" though... not in the current "let's slap an LLM into some workflow", but as a concept that is at least an order of magnitude away from what is possible today.